Lost Symphony

Sylph Live in Studio (Kharkov, Ua 2016): www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=ugTPCRBHclE Sylph live in Poland: www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=zZsxmNrAjBA Lost Symphony TEASER: www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=xJxBfUtFoHU 4th Karfagen Album. Symhonic art-rock fairytale. Mixed and mastered by Antony Kalugin. Released in 2011 by Caerllysi Music label (UK) Lost Symphony is a huge step forward for the Ukrainian project Karfagen, led by the brilliant Antony Kalugin. The album is completely instrumental and practically every composition on the album is a highlight. You might expect a bombastic and heavy symphonic sound with a title like this, but what you get is a symphony of subtleties. You will have to listen to the album a couple of times carefully before you get to the structure of it. All compositions flow into each other. But once you have acquired the taste, you just can't stop listening to it. Every time you listen, you will discover new things, new sounds in the background, or little details you hadn't noticed before in the arrangements, which are all meticulously worked out. To achieve this varied sound, mister Kalugin has once more surrounded himself with a small orchestra of excellent musicians. Apart from the standard band line up, consisting of guitars, keyboards, bass & drums, there can be a enjoyed a small string section and a lavish woodwind section, consisting of a flute, a oboe and a bassoon. As an extra folk element, a bayan, a Russian/Ukrainian sort of accordion is added to the line up. As mentioned, there are no vocals on this album, or it should be the sporadic text less vocal interventions in some of the compositions. I don't think words would have been necessary on this album. The eloquence is in the music. The sound of Karfagen has always been firmly rooted in Ukrainian folk music, which gives the band a very characteristic sound. The music is very melodious and mixes in a beautiful way jazz, classic, folk and symphonic rock into a beautiful fairy tale-like musical landscape. A Review by Erik de Beer on Prog Archives.